Name: Marmalade Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 barspoon Orange marmalade; 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Marmalade Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
3 barspoon	Orange marmalade
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) optional
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura optional
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR 3 flat barspoons of marmalade (15-20ml) with other ingredients in base of shaker to dissolve the marmalade. SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

As Harry Craddock says of his own drink, "By its bitter-sweet taste this cocktail is especially suited to be a luncheon aperitif."

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Variant:

Breakfast Martini - with orange marmalade, dry gin, triple sec and lemon juice.
English Marmalade (Hawksmoor Marmalade Martini) - with orange marmalade, dry gin, red bitter liqueur, lemon juice and orange bitters.
Milanese Breakfast Martini - with orange marmalade, dry gin, red bitter liqueur, lemon juice and prosecco.
Paddington Bear Martini - with orange marmalade, dry gin, pisco and bianco vermouth.
Breakfast Gimlet - with orange marmalade, dry gin, lime cordial and lemon juice.
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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

MARMALADE COCKTAIL.
(6 people)
By its bitter-sweet taste this cocktail is especially suited to be a luncheon aperitif. Place the following mixture in the shaker :
2 Dessertspoonsful Orange Marmalade.
The Juice of 1 big or 2 small Lemons.
4 Glasses Gin.
Shake carefully and pour out, squeezing a piece of orange rind into each glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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